The Fat Kid Bakery Donut Shop: Amoy Street Sourdough Bombos

The Fat Kid Bakery is a small shophouse bakery at 39 Amoy Street, Singapore 069865, three minutes from Telok Ayer MRT, and its whole menu is built around sourdough bomboloni, which the shop calls bombos. It opens Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am to 6.30pm and Saturday 10.30am to 4pm, and it is closed on Sundays. The official online shop prices a box of four plain bombos at S$15.60, with filled flavours costing more.

The bakery was started by Ariel Tang, who left a job in public relations to bake full time, as Vulcan Post reported in its profile of the business. It began as a home-based operation, moved into a shop in Ang Mo Kio, and then relocated to Amoy Street, where the new store opened on 18 April 2023, according to Seth Lui and Eatbook. The name comes from the brand's cheerful self-mockery: the website talks about embracing your inner child and giving in to cravings without judgment.

That tone runs through everything, down to the product descriptions, which joke that the Fat Kid's belly appeared after eating a whole box of eight. Behind the jokes is a specific choice of dough: every bombo on the menu is a sourdough bomboloni, a sourdough-leavened take on the round Italian filled doughnut, sold in boxes and in a mini size.

The Amoy Street move was announced on the homepage, which still greets visitors with the news that the store has moved and reopened with new flavours. The shop also kept a following through collaborations: in November 2025, HungryGoWhere reported a matcha bomboloni made with the Singapore matcha brand Hvala.

The homepage lists the favourite flavours as roasted hazelnut, Summer Berries, Citrust Bomb, Blueberry Cheesecake, Chocolate Earl Grey, Sea Salt Maple and Vanilla Crème Brûlée. Vanilla Crème Brûlée, finished with a caramelised top, is the one most people photograph. Chocolate Earl Grey is the choice for tea drinkers, and Citrust Bomb and Summer Berries are the fruitier options if you find custard fillings heavy.

There is also a savoury line, unusual for a doughnut shop. The Savoury Series box of four, from S$26.50, includes Spicy Egg Mayo, Torched Mentaiko Cream, Sour Cream and Onion and Roasted Garlic Mascarpone. Torched Mentaiko Cream is the pick of the four, a salty, savoury option for anyone who wants a snack rather than dessert. Skip the savoury box if you are buying for children; the sweet flavours are the safer crowd-pleaser.

Prices on the official shop are for boxes. Four plain bombos are from S$15.60, eight from S$31.20, ten from S$38.80 and twelve from S$46.20, with the price rising as you choose filled flavours. The Mini Sourdough Bombos come in an assorted box of 12 from S$36.00, a good size for a meeting room, and the bakery also sells eclairs in boxes of 10 or 20, from S$33.00.

For larger numbers, the directions page says bulk and corporate orders are arranged by message rather than through the regular checkout, which suits the office towers around Telok Ayer. Order a day or two ahead if you need a specific mix; walk-in stock depends on what has sold through by the time you arrive.

Weekday mornings are when the shop is most useful. It opens at 9am, and arriving before the CBD lunch break gives you the fullest choice before office workers start dropping in. Friday is the long day, open until 6.30pm, so it is the one evening you can buy a box after work. Saturday has short hours, 10.30am to 4pm, and on Sunday the shutters stay down.

That is also the way to ask what is left in the case late in the day, or to check on a bulk order. The bakery does not claim halal certification, so ask before ordering for halal-observant guests.

If you arrive on a Sunday, or the case is empty, the nearest plan B is Audi x Burnt Ends Bakery at 18 Cross Street, #01-20, a ten-minute walk north inside the Audi House of Progress. It opens every day from 8am to 4pm and sells a rotating selection of brioche doughnuts from the Michelin-starred Burnt Ends kitchen, a richer, larger style than the Fat Kid's sourdough bombos.

Amoy Street is one of the best-preserved rows of shophouses in the CBD, and a walk here easily fills an hour. Thian Hock Keng Temple on Telok Ayer Street, one block east, is Singapore's oldest Hokkien temple and free to enter. Amoy Street Food Centre, at the southern end of the street, is a classic hawker centre for a cheap lunch before or after your bombos.

Telok Ayer Street was once the shoreline, which is why its temples and mosques face what is now a row of office towers. Along with Thian Hock Keng you pass the Nagore Dargah, a former Indian Muslim shrine turned heritage centre, and the Al-Abrar Mosque, both a few minutes from the bakery. Walking the street slowly with a box of minis takes about twenty minutes from end to end.

Head up through the steps to Ann Siang Hill and Club Street for more shophouse streets and bars, or north along Telok Ayer Street to Far East Square. Pick a bench in the small Ann Siang Hill Park on the way, which sits above the street and is a quiet place to open the box.

Address: The Fat Kid Bakery, 39 Amoy Street, Singapore 069865. Opening hours from the official homepage: Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm, Friday 9am to 6.30pm, Saturday 10.30am to 4pm, Sunday closed.

Getting there: the official directions page says to leave Telok Ayer MRT (DT18) by Exit A and walk for three minutes. Tanjong Pagar MRT on the East-West Line is also within ten minutes on foot. There is no dedicated parking at the shophouse, so public transport is the easiest option during office hours.